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2007 Ca’ de’ Medici Reggiano Lambrusco - Italy, Emilia-Romagna, Reggiano (9/2/2009)
Pale, translucent garnet with gentle fizz and a very pleasant cranberry-cherry bouquet. This is quite zippy on the palate, where it’s dry, fruity, and has plenty of acidity to wash down tonight’s baked ziti. There’s a slight bitterness to it, but in a way that fits the cranberry fruit profile. I like it. 11% abv.
An aside: we’d pretty much written off Lambrusco after we had one that tasted like sparkling Manischewitz at a trattoria somewhere in Europe.
This bottle was somewhere south of $11, and I can seriously imagine drinking this with all sorts of heavy Italian-American dishes that often leave us scratching our heads for an appropriate pairing.